Observations & Insight Hawaii Pension Parts Ways With CIO Amy Whyte - Institutional Investor Chief investment officer Vijoy Chattergy is no longer employed with Hawaii's $16 billion state pension fund, where he had served as CIO since 2012, Institutional Investor...
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Cinnober’s Minium: Bringing Real-Time Post-Trade To The Sell-Side
In this video, Patrick Tessier, COO of Cinnober’s newly announced subsidiary Minium, talks about the evolution of post-trade processes and what Minium has to offer to banks and brokers.
Wall Street Readies Debt-Limit War Room; Bitcoin Foundation seeks protection from regulation; Deutsche Boerse Supervisory Board Action
First Read Hits & Takes Paul Georgy of Allendale is today's featured speaker from the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series in Chicago from July.~JJL Speaking of opportunity, would you like to be a sponsor of our MarketsWiki Education Intern Recruiting...
Cinnober’s Persson on What Every CCP Needs in Today’s Clearing Landscape
In this video from FIA IDX, Cinnober’s Chairman of the Board, Nils-Robert Persson, takes us through recent developments in clearing and what the next steps ought to be. Persson first highlights a key shift for clearinghouses: the moment they started to clear OTC...
The Solutions To All Your Post-Trade Problems
The post-trade clearing space is full of new entrants and innovation from incumbents. Firms are looking at everything from collateral management to new back office systems to finding new efficiencies to real-time reporting with current back office systems. John...
The Problem With Post-Trade Is…
The post-trade clearing space is full of new entrants and innovation from incumbents. Firms are looking at everything from collateral management to new back office systems to finding new efficiencies to real-time reporting with current back office systems. John...
Making the Johannesburg Stock Exchange a Global Player
“The JSE, for eight years in a row now, was rated number one, two or three in the world by the World Economic Forum for the quality of financial market regulation.” The Johannesburg Stock Exchange is in the process of adjusting much of its infrastructure. It already...
Futures industry walks to work to support Futures for Kids charity
Industry executives from Washington and Chicago also join their London counterparts Today is the Futures for Kids (FFK) 6th Annual “Walk to Work” , which will see some 70 futures industry executives trek around London before heading to the Finish Line at the Anchor...
Two Sigma to acquire Interactive Brokers’ US options arm; Comey’s Firing Is a Crisis of American Rule of Law; Cinnober to acquire market surveillance firm Ancoa
First Read Bits & Pieces By John J. Lothian Four JLN team members are out in sunny Arizona for the Options Industry Conference, which gets underway officially today. Jim Kharouf, Spencer Doar, Jeff Bergstrom and Patrick Lothian are covering the conference for JLN...
Nasdaq’s Blueprint for a New Era of Trading; Revitalizing the Capital Markets; Managed-Futures Fund Launches In Q1 2017
First Read So You Want Data? Julie Armstrong Menacho Says CME Is Transforming Data JohnLothianNews.com Every exchange is looking at new ways to store, package and provide data to end users. CME's Julie Armstrong Menacho said the exchange is creating platforms for the...
A Difference Maker: Post-trade Clearing Tech Now a Differentiator For Firms
If today's markets are traded in milliseconds, why can't post-trade clearing keep up? ION is addressing that with its XTP clearing solution, a near real-time system it has quietly been rolling out since 2015. Last year the product...
From Sports To Business In An International Arena – Veronica Augustsson, Cinnober
"The financial ecosystem is created by business people and it will be changed by technology. It is with technology that we will make a safer world, a better world, a more efficient world that we can trust even more." Veronica Augustsson, the CEO of Cinnober Financial...
Don’t Believe Options Traders; Europe’s Volatility Curve Is Getting Kinky Ahead of French Vote; Trump’s dollar paradox promises roller-coaster ride for currencies
Observations & Insight January Marketshare via OCC ++++++ On another note, check out what the VIX momentarily did after the Fed yesterday: Here's a closer breakdown of the action from the CBOE: Time Index Quote 12:59:56 p.m. CT 11.50 1:00:11 p.m. CT 9.97...
Derivatives ‘Big Bang’ catches market off guard; CME profit jumps 28 pct as trading volumes spike; New Asian marketplace signing for Cinnober’s real-time clearing technology
First Read Bits & Pieces By John J. Lothian Jim Kharouf and I are off to Washington, DC today to pay our respects to the CFTC and attend a "going away" affair for former Chairman Tim Massad. When he will actually leave is still a question, I am told. Econ Illinois...
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First Read $24,451/$300,000 (8.2%) ++++ A more perfect union; FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken shares a personal perspective on Washington riots Walt Lukken - FIA Normally, this column offers opinions on the global policies and trends of our industry, but last week's...
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Options Feedback Loop Revives Bust Warnings in Soaring Stocks; Short Interest in World’s Biggest ETF Plunges to Decade Lows
Options Feedback Loop Revives Bust Warnings in Soaring Stocks; Short Interest in World’s Biggest ETF Plunges to Decade Lows
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